This session covers best practices in connecting people to effective mental health treatment programs, prioritizing resources for high-risk groups and those nearing release, and encouraging community-based aftercare will ensure better outcomes for people released from prisons and jails, and the communities to which they return.
This blog details the efforts of Bexar County and the City of San Antonio's Public Safety Net Program (The Center for Health Care Services, the City of San Antonio and Bexar County Stakeholders) in its efforts to divert persons with mental illness from inappropriate incarceration and inappropriate use the emergency rooms.
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Gilbert Gonzales
- Gilbert R. Gonzales
- San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, United States
- Director of Communications and Diversion Initiatives,The Center for Healthcare Services, Mental Health Authority. • Gilbert Gonzales has more than 29 years of experience in the field of substance abuse and mental health crisis prevention and in treatment provision as a clinician, university faculty, project/program director and policy advisor. Throughout his career, he has led strategic planning, treatment and policy development, and training. He has also led systems change initiatives that help mental health and substance abuse service providers promote collaboration and build service capacity in support of diverse populations.
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